Toilet fixture



D. E. BENNETT March 1, 1938.

TOILET FIXTURE Filed Oct. 7, 1936 INVENTOR:

ATTORNEY.

\ I I I l I I ll Patented Mar. 1, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application October 7,

4 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in the means employed for supporting and dispensing the paste-like contents of collapsible tubular containers.

The several objects of the invention are:-

The offering of means whereby the collapsible tube containers used in the commerce handling plastic products may be concealed within a suitable casing along with the products dispensing mechanism in order to, respectively, avoid waste and untidiness, and, to minimize tampering inquisitiveness attracted by exposed mechanical contrivances. The convenient mounting in a unitary arrangement of associated toilet accessories having plastic, fluid, or powder qualities. Also, the safeguarding of semi-medicinal preparations against the risks of contamination imminent around toilet or like sanitary fixtures usually adjacent to locations where conveniences of the present classification are installed.

The providing of positive and simple means for depleting collapsible tubes, and like containers, whose discharge orifices vary as to shape and size as well as the differences occurring in the lengths and diameters of tubular packages; such as, shaving-cream, toothpaste, salve-like ointments, and, at times, lubricants.

Other objects will be noted throughout the particular description wherein the novel features are set forth, and especially pointed out in appended claims, both portions of the specification referring to the accompanying drawing which is a part of this application, and whose several figures are indexed as follows:-

Fig. 1 is a front view with portions broken away to reveal interior aspects.

Fig. 2 is a side View of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an end View of Fig. 1 partly broken away, with a container element shown dotted.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of an essential part of the invention shown detached with associated structure indicated in dotted lines.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of the inventions lower end aspect.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view of another essential element which functions as a locking plate member.

Various outward designs may be resorted to, as model forms, without departing from the spirit of the invention here involved. The described structure is directed to simple manufacture offering a durable, pleasing, and, serviceable, commodity.

Similar characters of reference apply to like 1936, Serial No. 104,386

elements and features throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing, the general assembly follows a rectangular box-like arrangement, attached to any convenient surface, as Fig. 1 would 5 indicate. A bottom D and cover D are suitably hinged together at h, which when closed conceal the tubular container form here labelled T. The inclosure D and D provide also shield from view and guard against injury to those moving about 10 in close and dark quarters from possible contact with the mechanism necessary in discharging the contents of the aforesaid tubular container. The said cover and bottom register with each other to make a perfect abutting relationship; the base or bottom D is bent to provide the oppositely disposed turned in flanges d andd; the top or cover D is cut away to leave a slot S along one side of the inclosure parallel to the flange d; the lower face of the bottom D is out out and rolled to provide the hinge-like sleeves d at either side of a space wherethrough the neck 11 of a container tube, T, will project beyond the inclosure at a point where said neck will lie coincident to the axis of the aforesaid sleeves, the latter forming a separated tube for opposed pins p-p. When closed, and loaded, the cover D, tube T, and bottom D, are locked together by means of a plate 12 bent at right-angles to conform to the front face and lower end of the closed members D and D. The upper end of this plate is crimped to function as a hook-like edge which grips the cover at v where occurs a slot S for that purpose. The opposite end of said plate is cut and bent to provide spaced apart sleeves v"v" to align with the similar formations d-d, allowing the pins p to perform the locking action while incidentally pinching between the opposed pin points the projecting neck of the tube T. The cover D is cut away at w to freely admit the sleeves 12, said sleeves being chamfered, as is shown dotted in Fig. l, in order to allow the maximum projection of the neck n beyond the face of the plate 1). Integrally part of the plate 12 is a tubular valve stem V Whose 45 detailed arrangement is of the common sliding variety and need not be further described here, there being a number of such valve varieties all of which would be equally efiicient in the present instance. The stem assembly V will be suitably provided with an appropriate socket for accommodating a bottle or can-like container adapted to, respectively, hold fluid or powder substances which will lend themselves to be dispensed by the 55 type of push-valves obviously applicable as indicated.

Where the assembly is a toilet installation the products dispensed would be, shaving-cream and some kind of facial balm or skin lotion. Used as a dentifrice convenience the combination would be, toothpaste, or toothpowder, with some kind of medicinal preparation.

The dispensing of plastic products, such as shaving-cream, and the like, which come in collapsible tubes, will be performed through means now to be described: The flanges d and d are opposed but not in the same horizontal plane, the slot S leaving the flange d somewhat lower than the flange d, regarding the assembly to be horizontally disposed. A plate is bent to form a sort of carriage having end walls c-c which latter, in turn, are slitted at c to receive the flanges d and (1 upon which the carriage slides when a tube is being exhausted of its contents. The end Walls 0 are pierced to offer unchanging bearings for the axes of fluted rolls r, the upper rolls axis being extended to provide the stub-shaft 1" upon which is tightly pressed a knurled knob K whose inner disc face abuts the inclosures side to span the slot S. The flattened end of a container tube is passed between the rolls 1* and the tubes softer metal functions to bring the rolls into a gearlike relationship which corrugates said tube into a completely exhausted Web, as the carriage slides upon the flanges dd towards the tubes anchored neck 11.

An exhausted tube is removed and a full one exchanged by withdrawing the pins p to where the sleeves 'u are freed when the assembly, D, B, and V, can be rocked about the hinge h, the old tube removed and a new one inserted to be gripped again by the pins p in an obvious manner. In an equally obvious manner an exhausted tube may be removed from between the rollers r.

l The space wherethrough the neck 12 projects beyond the housing can be liberal enough, when the plate V is detached, to, also, admit a replenishing tube when the rolls are again pushed upward to where the locking relation obtains as before. The said rolls are determinedly spaced to admit a tubes "clip element common to all collapsible containers; beyond this clip there is ample traction along the softer tube portion for the corrugated rolls.

The assembly can be attached at any preferred location by means of the screws f;f which are accessible when the cover is open, as is also obvious. The flanges dd terminate sufficiently distant from the locking end to permit a removal of the carriage assembly C when occasion requires.

Having described the invention, what is claimed and desired to protect by United States Letters Patent is:-

1. A collapsible-tube-anchoring inclosure having cover and bottom members, a separable plate, and a container tube, united together in locked relationship at the axial line of opposed pin elements that are slidably adjustable in said bottom and said plate.

2. A collapsible-tube dispensing means having, a tube-inclosing housing means, a tube collapsing carriage, a separable locking plate means, dispenser means, and a plastic container means, united to form a completed assembly by removable piercing elements enterable into all of the recited means.

3. A latch carrying collapsible-tube-anchoring dispenser, the base of a separable dispenser, opposed and slidable pin elements, and a plastic container within the first recited dispenser, locked together by uniting said plate to the first recited dispenser with the aforesaid elements.

i. A latch carrying collapsible-tube-anchoring dispenser, a plate forming the base of a separable dispenser, opposed and slidable pin elements, and a plastic container within the first recited dispenser locked together by uniting said plate to the first recited dispenser with the aforesaid elements.

DONALD E. BENNETI'. 

